Litm(us) and Black Beauty School
How Litm(us) & Black Beauty School live within the Wata(ring) W(hole)
Litm(us) and Black Beauty School are two portals on the planet of the Wata(ring) W(hole) within the Bespokecurry cosmos.
Both live inside Afro Hair Tings—the field where hair, body, memory, and spirit meet.
They are different waters.
They move with the same source.
One is communal spiritual inquiry.
One is applied ancestral technique and accountability in practice.
Both are Water Tech(know)logy.
Black Beauty School
Black Beauty School
A portal of Earth, Water, Reverse OsMo(cis), and The Hole
Black Beauty School is the applied practice of Water Tech(know)logy in salon spaces across the diaspora.
It teaches afro hair as ancestral technology—
not trend, not texture, not “type,”
but relationship.
This work lives in:
Rooting technique in Black salon spaces across the diaspora.
Who we build with matters. Who we allow to touch our bodies matters.
Earth/ Sand/
Clay (community)
Afro hair carries record.
Techniques must honor the body’s memory, not override it for aesthetics.
Water (memory/ body/record)
Unlearning colonial beauty standards.
Shedding the binary of “professional vs natural,” “neat vs political,”
“manageable vs worthy.”
Reverse Osmo(cis)
Naming the harm created by anti-Blackness and extraction in the beauty industry.
This school exists because the industry fails the least of us—
and failure is not neutral.
The Hole
A PORTAL
LITM(US)
A portal of Water, S(hell), Waves, (Flo)at, and the Cloud
Litm(us) is the spiritual container within Afro Hair Tings.
It is a community conversation and embodied inquiry into afro hair as sacred technology.
Litm(us) lives in:
water
Water (Memory / Body / Record):
Afro hair holds memory of climate, lineage, chemistry, emotion, and environment.
Hair is water in form.
s(hells)
S(hell) (Identity / Mind / Imagination):
How we imagine our hair shapes how we imagine ourselves.
What shells have we been taught to live inside?
waves
Waves / Rain / Atmosphere (Carriers of Information):
Hair is a receiver and transmitter of information—
social, spiritual, political, and ancestral.
Litm(us) asks: What if you don’t know your hair yet?
Can you sit in not knowing long enough to listen for your own flow
instead of borrowing someone else’s?
(flo)at
The Cloud (Stolen Record of Memory):
What was taken from our relationship to afro hair?
What knowledge lives in the body that was never archived?
Litm(us) is retrieval practice.
the cloud
You are the Tech(know)logy
Core teaching of Litm(us):
Afro hair defies gravity.
It is the only hair that grows toward the sky.
It becomes a litmus test for the internal and external worlds—
revealing what we believe about Blackness, care, beauty, labor, worth, and the sacred.
Litm(us) is a tool of Black embodiment.
Not a class you finish—
a conversation you return to.
litm(us)
The Wata(ring) W(hole) is the planet where all Water Tech(know)logy gathers.
Litm(us) and Black Beauty School Live are two waters within that whole.
Litm(us) moves like Waves / Rain / Cloud — spiritual inquiry, memory retrieval, embodied listening.
Black Beauty School Live moves like Earth / Water / Reverse OsMo(cis) — applied practice, technique, unlearning harm, rebuilding care.
One changes the inner relationship.
One changes the outer practice.
Neither is complete without the other.
Together they work toward ancestral alignment
with self, community, body, earth, and memory.
The Four Waves of Litm(us)
each wave maps to the Water Tech(know)logy of the Wata(ring) W(hole)
Wave I — S(hell) to Ear
Listening to the Record (Water + S(hell))
We begin by hearing and holding our journeys.
Afro hair stories are shared as living records—
how memory, land, body, water, and cosmology shape the scalp.
This wave asks: What have we forgotten about ourselves?
And what returns when we listen without spectacle?
Wave II — The Tea / Rest from the Record
Inner Listening (Wooden C(u)p + Water)
“The tea is that there is no tea.”
We pause from performance and external validation.
Through breath, movement, meditation, writing, and gentle touch,
we practice turning inward—
not to gossip about others’ lives,
but to form our own cosmology of care.
This wave asks:
Where does your body hold others’ influence?
What needs to be released?
How do we re-pair the holes we’ve learned to live inside?
Wave III — (Flo)at
Flow, Discernment, Repair (Waves + Reverse OsMo(cis))
We explore afro hair as litm(us):
a living indicator of internal health and external atmosphere.
We unlearn colonial speed and extraction,
and practice sacred pace—flow that restores memory.
This wave asks:
How do the shells we create block connection and care?
How can our natural wattage sustain one another without depletion?
How do we rebuild trust and create community rhythms outside capitalism and coloniality?
We unlearn Colonial Wild Fire—speed with no end—and practice Indigenous Wildfire—sacred pace that clears without destroying. This is Reverse OsMo(cis): shedding urgency, restoring memory, and letting water move again.
Wave IV — Bapt(ism) / Landing Ashore
Practice in Community (Bapt(ism) + The Watering W(hole))
We move toward action through Wata(rings)—
small community circles for consistent, non-commodified care.
Where three or more gather (non-religiously),
we practice platonic, restorative rituals of scalp and afro hair care.
This is reparations to ourselves.
A return to embodied sanctity without extraction.
We ask:
What rituals can we create from ancestral memory and sustain in everyday life?
How do we meet community needs without monetizing care?
Litm(us) — Live (Community Practice Version)
Embodied, relational, and hands-on
The live version of Litm(us) brings the work into the body.
This is not a lecture—it’s practice in motion.
Together, we use community tools to restore relationship to afro hair:
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Line dancing and collective movement
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Altar building grounded in Afro hair cosmology
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Community commitments to care for afro hair
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Hands-on workshops that remove the salon as the middleman
Shared rituals of scalp and hair care rooted in consent, tenderness, and skill.
This version exists to return care to the people—
to practice Water Tech(know)logy in real time,
in real bodies, in real community.
A two-day learning portal rooted in Black salon spaces,
with a panel of afro hair models speaking honestly and uncomfortably about why the industry continues to fail Black bodies—
and how we practice differently.
What it restores:
Technique with care.
Skill with accountability.
Practice with ancestral alignment.
